Mobile World Congress (MWC)

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América Móvil Carries Mozilla's Firefox OS To Mexico

Stephen Shankland | CNET | May 14, 2014

The company's Telcel subsidiary will sell Alcatel One Touch phones with Mozilla's browser-based operating system.  Mozilla has a new partner, América Móvil, a carrier that will spread its Firefox OS mobile operating system to Mexico...

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Back Off, NSA: Blackphone Promises To Be The First Privacy-Focused Smartphone

Sharif Sakr | Engadget | January 15, 2014

You may never have heard of Geeksphone, unless you take a particular interest in Firefox OS, but the Spanish manufacturer could be about to garner some global attention. It says it'll launch a new handset at Mobile World Congress next month that will prioritize privacy and security instead of all the intrusions that smartphone users usually have to put up with [...]. Read More »

Canonical Embeds Ubuntu Linux Into Devices to Secure IoT

Sean Michael Kerner | eWeek | January 20, 2015

The new effort will extend Ubuntu's Snappy Linux technology to help enable the Internet of things...

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Facebook-Backed Nonprofit Brings Free Internet To Zambia

Mat Honan | WIRED | July 31, 2014

...In an effort to help those left behind join the digital age, Internet.org—the Facebook-backed nonprofit organization—is releasing an app providing free internet data access to a handful of core services to people in Zambia.  The freely available services are mostly focused on health, employment and local information. It’s a great step—if just a step—to getting the rest of the world online...

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Firefox OS Smartphone, New Tablets Star At MWC 2014

Pablo Valerio | EE Times | February 26, 2014

While tradeshows are no longer the place to announce new products -- manufacturers tend to release them at their convenience -- the annual Mobile World Congress in Barcelona sometimes proves the outlier, with a number of different mobile and other announcements that set the stage for the rest of the year. Read More »

Ford Goes Open Source To Speed App Development

Doug Newcomb | Wired | March 1, 2013

In the ecosystem gamble of “open” or “closed,” Ford is putting all its chips on open. At this week’s Mobile World Congress, Ford announced it’s releasing the proprietary source code for its Sync AppLink platform to Genivi, an automotive-centric open source alliance. Read More »

Ford Loads Up Spotify As The First Apps Make It Through Its Open Dev Program

Kevin Fitchard | GigaOM | February 25, 2013

At Mobile World Congress, Spotify debuted in its first cars appearing in Ford’s already music-loaded Sync AppLink platform. Ford CTO Paul Mascarenas also told us that its graduate its first apps from its developer program. Read More »

Here's Why Mozilla Is Building A $US25 Smartphone

Keith Griffith | Business Insider Australia | May 3, 2014

Last week, Mozilla tapped Andreas Gal as its new chief technology officer...He’s intensely focused on Firefox OS, a mobile operating system with big ambitions: winning the battle for the next two billion smartphone users...

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How Mobile Became Mighty In Healthcare

Chris Duffey and Katie Erbs | The Guardian | June 9, 2014

Ten powerful trends emerging in mobile health for patients, professionals and providers...

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In Affordable Smartphones, Firefox OS Shines But Nokia's X Phone Strategy Is Murky

Phil Goldstein | FierceWireless | February 25, 2014

One of the major themes I'm hearing here at the Mobile World Congress trade show is that handset makers across the board are focusing on affordable smartphones. Mozilla and its Firefox OS partners seems to be hitting the mark more than others by aligning the user experience they're delivering with the price points they are setting for the phones. Read More »

Libelium Releases Smart Water Sensors To Monitor Water Quality

Press Release | Libelium | February 24, 2014

At Mobile World Congress today, Libelium launched a Smart Water wireless sensor platform to simplify remote water quality monitoring. Equipped with multiple sensors that measure a dozen of the most relevant water quality parameters, Waspmote Smart Water is the first water quality-sensing platform to feature autonomous nodes that connect to the Cloud for real-time water control. Read More »

Mobile Giants Forced To Reckon With Emerging Markets

Jon Fortt | CNBC | February 25, 2013

This, in a nutshell, is the challenge that faces the entire mobile industry: Growth opportunities lie in emerging markets, where a new price-sensitive middle class is booming. To win the next phase of the computing race, the heavyweights will have to rethink their approach. Read More »

Mobile World Congress & Open Source Solutions

Bill Weinberg | Open Source Delivers | March 5, 2013

While most of the mobile hardware that debuted on the [Mobile World Congress] show floor featured Android, notable departures deployed alternative open source platforms: Mozilla Firefox OS, Ubuntu Mobile, Tizen and Sailfish. Read More »

More Evidence That Microsoft Might Cozy Up To Android

Sam Dean | GigaOM | February 11, 2014

We've been predicting it for years, and now it looks like it's really happening: Microsoft is finally realizing that the way to escape from its mobile technology woes is to embrace Android. At least that's what is implied by a Wall Street Journal report that says Nokia plans to deliver a forked Android smartphone at the upcoming Mobile World Congress conference in Barcelona. [...] Read More »

Mozilla Lights Up Preorders For Firefox OS-Driven Flame

Seth Rosenblatt | CNET | May 27, 2014

Firefox OS fans across the globe can now preorder Flame, the Web-based mobile operating system's first official reference phone...

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